Jim Morrison | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Jim Morrison.

Jim Morrison | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Jim Morrison.
This section contains 740 words
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The Doors are spectral. Maybe more than anybody. What counts is the impression for which no significant referent detail can or should be found. The music ends and there is no detail which you can refer to actually justify your impression. But you have that impression. And it's not even ambiguous. "The little girls they understand." Understand? Most importantly, there is a statement being made. But how? Take the words of a Doors song. Lots of people think the songs make them "swim in mystery." And if they think so, then they do. But usually the words aren't really bizarre or neat enough to do that. Everybody I know thought that Strange Days wasn't half as much fun as the first album [The Doors]. They figured Morrison would be a better old time type poet by now. Give the boy time, you know, he'll grow. But in an...

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